Romania Eurovision 2018 odds

Romania’s national selection shows come to an end, with the final. Winning the contest was The Humans with their song “Goodbye”. They’ll be off to Lisbon, Portugal in May to represent their home country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.

Following their qualification from the 5 semi-final shows, 15 acts tried to do their best, each claiming to be the one which will represent Romania in the Portuguese capital. However, the public’s verdict was clear; the only one winner is The Humans with the song Goodbye. Hence, with this participation on the Eurovision stage, Romania is being thrown into battle for one more high Eurovision placing!

They were decided as the winners by 100% televote from the viewing public. They managed to get 3,277 votes, placing them in front of favourites Alexia & Matei’s “Walking On Water” and Feli’s “Buna de iubit (Royalty)”, which came second and third with 3,114 and 2,862 respectively.

"It's a joy, a certainty, now, on the anniversary of a year since we formed this band. Thank you for your vote and for confidence, "said The Humans at the end of the show. "We were lucky because we had confidence in us, because in a year we have done a lot of beautiful things," added the winners of the National Selection Eurovision Romania 2018.

The Humans are pretty new to the music industry, with this song being their debut single. The group are apparently a five-piece band although six members can be seen during the Selectia Nationala final. The five band members are Cristina Caramarcu, Alexandru Cismaru, Alexandru Matei, Alin Neagoe, and Adi Tetrade. They celebrated their one-year anniversary of forming the group on the same day as they won the right to represent Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.

The whole range of human emotions, the high end of the values gathered from the life experience of the five musicians, the empathic exercise in time - that's what makes the difference between The Humans and other musical projects in the reference area. Their music is not a mechanical act of interpretation, but a sharing of boundless feelings between the stage and the public, an act of creation. A song with a strong social message, "Goodbye" is the second single of the band after "Indura inima", released just a few months ago The song Goodbye was composed and produced by Alin Neagoe and Alexandru Matei, the lyrics were written by Cristina Caramarcu and the video was directed by Anthony Icuagu.

The song "Goodbye" was already received very well in Berlin, where the band was invited to sing at the International Tourism Fair. "Until Lisbon we will go to the promotion tour, where we will play our song and we will participate in several parties, where the other winners from the other countries will be invited" - Cristina Caramarcu.

Romania debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 and has been counting 18 participations since. Although the country is yet to win the competition, the Romanians have enjoyed 3 Top 5 placings and have never been eliminated in the semi-finals, since the system’s introduction in 2004.

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